In October, I wrote a post about a certain Nissan Frontier ad. You know, the one where it helps land a plane. It became one of my top-viewed entries, and I still see people searching whether or not it’s real. Which is funny, because it so obviously is fake. Here’s another Nissan Frontier commercial…and this time, it’s snowboarding. Why? Just because. Oh, and this one isn’t real either.

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So pretty. The image of the colorful bikes travelling through the city at night is just very striking and pleasant. The music sounds great too. Also BlackBerry and its parent company Research in Motion are having severe financial problems, so enjoy commercials like this while you can.

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The NBA is finally back. This Budweiser commercial featuring LMFAO has been shown numerous times today. It parodies the video for their current hit “Sexy and I Know It”. Honestly, I don’t have that much interesting to say about this ad. But my friends did bring up an important question: WHERE IS 7?

Dashboard looks very nice, voiceover is smooth and informative, and the commercial is stylish all around. But man, the song bumps. “Stars” has been near the top of my Spotify most-played list for a few months now.

These Hershey’s commercials have been around for a number of years in various versions, with “Swing/Drive” being the most prominent. I love them…they make me smile every time. And here’s one I just saw. The song, of course, is a remix of the classic “I Melt With You” by Modern English.

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This is a post I’ve been mulling over for a while. The death of Kim Jong-il seems like the ideal time to write it.

In late August/early September, I installed the Feedjit tracker on my blog. I knew from WordPress statistics how many views Commercial Society was getting, but I had no idea where they were coming from. The tracker gives real-time updates for when people visit my site, including what post they view and their geographic location. Knowing where visitors are coming from has proven to be the most interesting part. It is absolutely fascinating to look at the globalization of advertising. Just as an example off the top of my head, there was a 20 minute span where people viewed the same post from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, and Iowa. Whenever the same post is seen a lot in a short period of time, it’s a good indication that the commercial I wrote about has just been shown on a highly-rated program, often football. To date, my blog has seen seen in over 110 countries, spanning 6 continents (still waiting on Antarctica).

Not surprisingly, one of the countries where my blog has not been visited is North Korea. I recently saw a show on the National Geographic Channel about life in North Korea. It was one of the most disturbing and unsettling things I’ve ever watched. They talked to “normal people” (though I’m sure they were carefully selected by the government). You could see the confusion and conflict in these peoples’ eyes. They said life in North Korea was great, and constantly praised the “Dear Leader”. But it was hard to tell if these people were truly happy, brainwashed, or completely miserable but forced to speak well of North Korea at gunpoint.

One thing I wondered about was Internet in North Korea. There is Internet, but it is extremely censored. In addition, common people in North Korea are starving, so it’s not like they have access to computers (or even know about them). So Internet is only for the super elite. Which means that it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible for a common person in North Korea to visit this blog.

But now Kim Jong-il is dead. Nobody knows exactly what’s next for North Korea. Kim Jong-il’s son Kim Jong-un is likely to take over…and it will probably be another awful dictatorship. So let’s assume everything stays the same. I have a dream. I have a dream that somehow a lowly North Korean peasant gets access to a computer, and somehow stumbles onto Commercial Society. Enlightened to the awesome worlds of consumerism, commercialism, and capitalism, he/she starts a REVOLUTION to overthrow the shitty North Korean government. OCCUPY PYONGYANG! FREEEEEDOM! You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Has Santa always been in this many commercials, or is it just that I’m paying more attention this year? Anyway, in this nice new iPhone 4S spot, Siri helps out Santa. Your figure looks great Santa, keep on eating the cookies! 3.7 billion appointments…that’s cute.